Master Page Elements Missing when Viewing Web Preview

[Sam Felis]

Running Publisher 2k3 on XP SP2 (2 pro, 1 home). I've set up a master page
for a website and have applied the master to the web pages. I can see the
master elements on each of the pages (and when I click get the callout
telling me to CTRL+M to see the master view), so I know the master's been
applied. However, when I select to preview the page in my web browser,
none of the elements appear.

I've scoured help, but it seems to be geared more for the presentation folk
vs. the web folk.

Any suggestions?

 

[Sam Felis]

Nevermind, I just stumbled upon the community discussion group and found my
post from this afternoon (I thought they'd go here, but, alas, that would
make too much sense, wouldn't it?)

Here's the reply I got over there:

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Here is a past post from our local MVP:

"A master page is where you place objects that appear on all pages. It is
by design for a print publication and not a web publication. While some
have reported to have used a master page in their web publication, I
recommend against it's use in a web publication. There have been issues
from customers that have been traced back to that and in my own testing I
have found issues with the way a web publication will write links from a
master page objects. I recommend that you use the option to copy all
objects on a page when you insert a new page in order to carry objects
across all pages. Or to just group them and copy/paste them across."

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com

I am afraid you need to dump the master page...DavidF

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Now why would MS have this functionality enabled for web pages if it
doesn't work for them? Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......